clouts
- plural of clout.
Example Sentences
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His clouts were described by The Times as “gigantic.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2021
If you were one of the 164,000 convicts transported to the Australian colonies, chances are you forked clys for screeves and clouts or worked the hoist to nail lobs and serve coves.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 19, 2019
The liner off Steve Trachsel, the shortest of McGwire’s mostly mammoth clouts that season, curled over the left-field wall at old Busch Stadium.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 9, 2015
The liner off Steve Trachsel, the shortest of McGwire's mostly mammoth clouts that season, curled over the left-field wall at old Busch Stadium.
From US News ● Oct. 9, 2015
To cleanse ourselves of these “cast clouts and rotten rags” is the first thing to be done in the court of our prison.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) by Ruskin, John
